significant that s. 11(1)
commences by stating that where a
person is committed the court shall
shall inform him in ordinary
language of his right to make an application for habeas corpus
while s. 13 (which is not directly relevant here since it refers
to return to foreign states) expressly refers to applications for
judicial review. It is also significant, in my judgment, that
while under s. 11(3) and 12(2) the court and the Home Secretary
are required to have regard to the same considerations the
Secretary of State is also given a broad "general discretion" as
to the making of an order for return. It seems unlikely that
the court would be required to reconsider the same issues
considered by the Secretary of State after he has done so when
the Secretary of State clearly has a wider discretion to refuse
to make an order for return than the court has to discharge the
person who has been committed by the Chief Metropolitan
Magistrate.
Then it is to be noted that s. 13 specially provides that
if there is an application for judicial review by a person who
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